Here’s a my favorite spice cupcake and cream cheese frosting recipe! It’s also gluten free and dairy free! But don’t let that scare you, these cupcakes are still quite yummy. As with everything I do, I want my end result…
Thanksgiving is a time to gather with friends and family, be grateful for all we have, and stuff ourselves silly. I’m not that concerned about the long term consequences of this. As I’ve said before, a single day of excess…
The United States is poised to consume a whopping 51,650,000 turkeys during Thanksgiving. With each turkey coming in at 13,878 calories (771 calories per pound of meat), that is a heck of a lot of excess calories—and we haven’t even…
Nothing is more annoying than a hacking cough that just doesn’t seem to go away. If you’ve ever experienced sleepless nights with the cough awakening you and your significant other, work conversations that get interrupted by your coughing spasms, or…
We all have our soft spots—the tender underbellies of our psyche. But to the hypersensitive among us, a gentle poke can feel more like a thwack from a meat tenderizer. Comments don’t slide off of us like water from a…
If you’ve been following the news, you know that there’s some hype about the new blood pressure guidelines that were just released by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA). Under their new, more stringent guidelines, a significantly greater…
A new study was released that I know a lot of you are going to be concerned about. It seems that eating fruits and vegetables that are known to have high pesticide residues could make it harder to get pregnant. There’s…
The authors of a recent study looked at how, among other things, shaving 100g off the weight of the runner’s shoes could contribute to a sub-2. That idea got a lot of runners thinking: if 100 grams is important enough that Nike…
Google “introversion” and you’ll come up with an alphabet soup of acronyms: INTJ, INFP, ISTJ, and many more. But another acronym went mainstream way before the interweb was littered with “16 Personality Type” quizzes: HSP. Fifteen to twenty percent of…
When we become parents we automatically change gears from focusing on our own desires and needs and instead immerse ourselves in the task of concentrating on whatever it takes to care for our family. As our children grow and reach…
Do you ever wonder if your drinking is out of hand? Maybe you’ve stepped up your alcohol intake lately and are afraid to ask your doctor? Or maybe you’ve been drinking for a very long time, but now want to…
Hmmm. Have you ever looked at those little moons at the base your nails and wondered what they mean? Nope, me neither! I rarely give them a second thought and, if I’m honest, mine are usually covered up with nail…
Notable October holidays like Columbus Day and Halloween are now behind us, and so is another lesser-known October celebration: Eat Better, Eat Together Month. With the hectic winter holiday season nearly upon us, it’s a wonderful time of year to…
A listener named Victoria wrote to me the other day and said, “I have really skinny calves. So skinny that I am starting to feel self conscious about wearing leggings without high boots. How can I get my calves to…
Skin concerns are one of the top questions at the doctor’s office. But the most dreaded type of skin condition is melanoma; among the three main types of skin cancers, it is the only potentially life-threatening one. But with so…
Nancy writes: “What’s your take on sole water? I’ve been hearing a lot about it and how fantastic it can be, but don’t want to jump on the bandwagon if it’s detrimental to my health.” What is Sole Water? Sole…
Body fat, or the more technical term adipocytes (adipo means fat and cyte means cell), is found in many places around the human body and mostly underneath your skin, what we call subcutaneous fat. There is also some on top…
Some-Amazing-Green-Tea-Extract-Benefits Do we know what the green tea extract benefits are, although we all know that green tea is great for you? This informative article will delve into this question. You’ll find green tea is not only a hot…
We all know the basics of being healthy: eat well, exercise, and get some rest (especially when you’ve got your country’s 500th anniversary to plan, your wedding to arrange, your wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it) because,…
Here’s an all-too-familiar scenario you may have already encountered: You visit your doctor for a physical and she orders a cholesterol test as part of your baseline lab work. You hate needles and think to yourself, “I’m in perfect health,…
Last week’s Wall Street Journal featured a special section on “The Future of Food” and the cover story by Annie Gasparro was on “The Search for Sweet”—how food manufacturers are racing to identify or develop new ingredients that can be…
A recent study on exercise and the prevention of depression aimed to determine whether or not exercise provides protection against new-onset depression, the intensity and amount of exercise required to gain protection, and how the protection might work. To do this they…
In recent weeks, revelations about sexual harassment and its devastating effects have flooded the news and social media. But aside from a few legal-team-filtered statements, we don’t have an insight into the mindset of the accused harassers. So what are…
Using rosemary, cucumber, and other household items can naturally alleviate foot pain. Golf Ball Massager You don’t need to do a single thing to turn an ordinary golf ball into a massager for your feet or hands. Just roll it…
The winter season has certainly arrived—with snot dripping, cough droplets swarming, temperatures spiking, and sick people moaning. Germs are spreading faster than wildfire as I write. And a sore throat is often where the story all begins. The winter season…
Laurel recently requested an episode on seitan: What the heck is it, how does it stack up nutritionally, and how do you eat it? Seitan is not a new thing. The word (pronounced say-tan) is Japanese and was coined just…